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Forman was surrounded by his family when he died on Friday after a short illness, his wife was quoted as saying by Czech media. Working with non-actors, Forman once revealed his strategy when making a film — the entire crew must have fun. Facing a lot of trouble and possibly a prison term, Forman finally persuaded French producer Claude Berri to buy the rights to the film. It was banned in Czechoslovakia for mocking the working classes, until the fall of communism in By using mostly non-actors, improvised dialogue and filming in the streets, Forman brought a new vitality into Czech cinema.
It told of a shy romantic factory girl in a small town depleted of men, who falls in love with a visiting young pianist, but is made unwelcome by his parents when she pursues him to Prague. One of the most delightful sequences shows a group of middle-aged army reservists trying to pair off with some of the bored local girls at a dance.
A beauty contest fizzles out when the contestants refuse to leave the cloakrooms, the raffle prizes are stolen, someone has a heart attack and a house burns down. The film, which took some sideswipes at petty bureaucracy, brought the director into disfavour with the authorities and caused 40, Czech firemen to resign in protest until it was explained that the picture was merely allegorical. It was the last Forman made there before he left for the US. Taking Off , in which he cast his sardonic eye on American middle-class families, failed commercially.
At the beginning of August they returned to France where they heard the news of the Warsaw Treaty troops invasion to Czechoslovakia. After several months spent in the French capital Vera decided to return back to Czechoslovakia, and Forman decided to conquer America.
Some friends from those days have stayed, some are gone, but still there might be some who left just for a minute and now they are looking for the way back. The playwright John Guare responsible for the play The House of Blue Leaves says that on entering the house he always felt he had left America and arrived in avant-garde Bohemia — the land, where only what you read and what you drink really mattered.
Forman finished the screenplay for Taking Off with a help of a young American filmmaker named John Klein. During shooting, he met his future producer Michael Hausman. He was riding a motorcycle to get to work. He was connected with underground movies and he was able to fit a film into any budget whatsoever. He probably would have been able to start pick pocketing, if it had been necessary for a film. And yet, his family belonged to one of the wealthiest ones in New York," recalls Forman.
But it happened, so I can say the last Czech film of mine was made in New York. Since that time I have been making only American movies. After the commercial failure of Taking Off , Forman had to start from scratch.
He moved into the Chelsea Hotel; supposedly he had only one dollar a day to live on, which he spent on one can of chili con carne and one bottle of beer. Despite this, he never considered returning back to Czechoslovakia. During the Olympic games, he witnessed the tragic Palestinian assassination of the Israeli sportsmen. Forman also managed to fulfill one of his dreams - to stage a play on Broadway. The concept of this advertisement was based on the opening sequence of his film Taking Off.
The full length film had cost dollars but its one minute retread swallowed a whole million. During this time, Forman began his friendship with his now-agent Robert Robby Lantz. Robby had been representing people all America was more than familiar with but still he treated me as if I was the most important person in the world.
For instance, he never wanted me to sign anything for him. Once we made an agreement and since that time we can both rely on that. It was probably confiscated by the secret police, because it never got to Forman. Forman became a successful American director almost overnight. He was offered many tempting films, but what he really wanted to direct was the musical Hair Italian producer Dino Laurentis offered Forman a film version of E.
Doctorow's bestselling novel Ragtime Filming Amadeus gave Forman the rare opportunity to return to his homeland. Although he was an American citizen, Forman was never able to receive official permission to visit Czechoslovakia. He explained to Purs how much money American filmmakers were willing to spend in Czechoslovakia, and quickly obtained all the necessary visas.
Filming was heavily controlled by the secret police. The picture was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and was awarded eight. Following Amadeus , Forman started pre-production on another historical drama — the film adaptation of the famous 18th century novel Les Liasions Dangereuses written by Choderlos de Laclos.
Due to the misunderstanding with the author of the theatre version, the playwright Christopher Hampton sold his rights to British director Stephen Frears.
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